Wukong Mod Brings Dragon Ball Z Connections Full Circle and Lets You Play as Goku

Dragon Ball has many inspirations, none more notable than Journey to the West — the famous Chinese novel that also served as the basis for Black Myth: Wukong. Now Dragon Ball Z and Black Myth: Wukong are being united thanks to a new mod that replaces The Destined One with Son Goku.

The new mod is a relatively straightforward swap — no kamehameha or going Super Saiyan here — but it is pretty neat to see Goku running around Black Myth: Wukong’s incredibly detailed world. He can even zip around on the equivalent of the Flying Nimbus, the magic cloud that itself was borrowed from Journey to the West and appears in Black Myth: Wukong. Check it out in the video below.

You can download the Son Goku Black Myth: Wukong mod right here.

Aside from Son Goku, a host of other Black Myth: Wukong mods let players swap in Tifa, swap The Destined One’s staff for a double-bladed lightsaber (very cool), and make tweaks to various aspects of the visuals and performance.

Whether you play with Goku or not, though, you’ll need a pretty beefy rig to be able to enjoy Black Myth: Wukong. Our reviewer Mitchell Saltzman utilized a top-of-the-line setup with a GeForce RTX 4090 and he still dealt with numerous crashes and other issues. Still, that hasn’t stopped Black Myth: Wukong from enjoying record concurrent numbers on Steam en route to selling 10 million copies in just three days.

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